“If we had only some oars——”
“But we have not.”
“No, and yet we must get away from here.”
“How?”
“In the way our ancestors did before they invented oars.”
“How was that?”
“With our hands.”
And the three set to work, leaning over the sides of the boat with their hands agitating the water and acting as oars.
It was slow—very slow work—but the boat moved.
“Get it to the side.”